Public engagement of academics has increased enormously in recent decades. But this new level of engagement is producing problems and conflicts for which many academics are ill-prepared.
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The future is not bleak as long as the government recognises the importance of and continues investing in science.
Why do certain songs and colors make us feel a certain way?
Despite ongoing efforts, achieving gender equality struggles because it is ignored or compartmentalised rather than interwoven throughout.
A new form of research is needed to bring us the cities of the future.
Initiatives to attract and retain women in science must overcome chauvinism and other obstacles to succeed.
Research systems with an international approach will be best-placed to win the most accolades.
HIV therapy that enables patients with the virus to live a healthy life is a great success for modern medicine. But what are the challenges to coming up with a complete cure?
There are no UK universities in the top ten list of institutions that have won the most Nobel Prizes since 2000.
We need to know what ‘good’ interdisciplinary research looks like.
A report out of the UK would have the quality assessors of research abolished because it takes time away from students. However the real reason seems to be an attempt to minimise government spending on research.
Government departments often commission research to help them understand and respond to policy issues. But they impose contract conditions that threaten to undermine the integrity of the work.
We are engaged in one of the great struggles of human knowledge – to liberate clinical trial data.
Millions tune in to Shark Week each year, but many walk away with the wrong impressions.
If we want to boost innovation in this country, we should emulate a scheme that has proven highly successful in the United States.
After we were stung, we realised just how much of a threat misconduct and cherry picked data is to health.
There is a long road to travel before South Africa’s scientists live up to the grand expectations to encourage solutions to the country’s problems and boost the economy.
The government has proposed changes to how Australia’s publicly funded research agencies are supported and how their performance is managed to boost the commercialisation of research.
The Australian Study of Health and Relationships (ASHR), the latest findings of which were released recently, has much to commend it. Like its counterpart, the British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes…
Mice possess a notable talent: they are excellent at making more mice. Their ability to reproduce at a breakneck pace is one reason they are often used as experimental research subjects. Thus, when Dr…
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